Package-display cabinet.



:UNITED STATES Patented June 16, 1903.

PATENT OFFICE.

PAC KAG E-DISPLAY CAB IN ET.

SPECIFICATION forming'part of Letters Patent No. 730,871, dated June 16,1903. Application filed October 11, 1902. Serial No. 126,957. (Nomodel.)

. To (ti/Z whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JOHN M. CALLANDER, a citizen of the United States,residing at Des Moines, in the county of Polk-and State of Iowa, haveinvented certain-new and useful Improvements in Package-DisplayCabinets, of which the following is a specification.

The objects of my invention are to provide a device of this class inwhich a maximum amount of the space within the cabinet is used forstoring the packages, and at the same time a display-cabinet is providedin which the display-front of the cabinet maybe filled with packages atall times and so thatdidereut kinds of packages may be kept in separatecolumns in the cabinet, and the under one of any of said columns in thecabinet may.

be quickly and easily removed without opening the cabinet, and packagesmay be taken from the interior of the cabinet and placed in thedisplay-front quickly and easily and when there be thoroughly protectedfrom dust and dirt. 1

My invention consists in certain details in the construction,arrangement, and combination of the various parts of the device wherebythe objects contemplated are attained, as hereinafter more fully setforth, pointed out in" my claim, and illustrated in the accompanyingdrawings, in which- Figure 1 shows the entire cabinet in its closedposition and without any of the packages therein. Fig. 2 showsaverticalsection of the same with a column of packages in the display-front andone of said packages partly removed from the bottom of the col umn, andFig. 3 shows an enlarged detail sectional view of the lower corner ofthe hinged display-front and a portion of the base.

Referring to the accompanying drawings, I have used thereference-numeral 10 to indicate the rectangular box, which may be madeof any desirable size and which is opened at its front, a portion of thebottom at the front edge being cut away at 1 1, the corners,however,projecting out beyond the front edges of the sides at 12.

The display-front comprises a rectangular frame 13, having its sidepieces projecting below the bottom pieceof 'the'frame at 14, The

.hingcs 15 are secured to the said projected ends 14 and also theprojecting portions 12 of the bottom 11. By this means the frame 13 ispermitted to swing outwardly and when closed to lie fiat against the topand sides of the box 10. On the rear surface of the frame 13 and at thesides thereof are the strips 16, and at the rear of these strips is abackpiece 17, the lower end portion of which is inclined downwardly andforwardly at 17 to incline the packages forwardly. Secured to the frontface of this back piece 17 are a series of vertical partitions 18 toproject forwardly to a point midway between the back 17 and the frame13, the said partitions extending downwardly to the bottom 19 of thedisplay-front, which bottom 19 also projects forwardly to a point midwaybetween the back 17 and the frame 14. Positioned in the frame 13 is a 7glass 20, thus forming with the back 17 a the top and part of thebottom. The under compartment completely inclosed except at surface ofthe lower rail of the frame 13 is beveled downwardly and forwardly at21;

In practical use the box 10 and the displayfront are filled withpackages of goods, which packages are preferably rectangularin shape,

as indicated by the numeral 22in Fig. 2, and

forwardly and away from the cabinet, the

inclined back 17 and the beveled surface 21 being provided for incliningthe lower package, so that it may be easily grasped by the operator. Theremaining packages in the compartment will drop by gravity upon thebottom 19 and may be successively removed in a like manner. Thecompartments may be readily filled by opening the hinged front andplacing the packages in their respective compartments at the top of thehinged front.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim, and desire to secureby Letters Patent of the United States therefor, is A display-cabinet,comprising in combination a box having an opening at the front portionof its bottom, strips projecting from the sides of said bottomforwardly, a displayfront hinged to said projecting strip to swingforwardly, said display-front comprising a glass panel, a solid back inthe rear thereof having its lower end inclined downwardly andforwardly,'a bottom projecting forwardly from the inclined back to apoint midway between the front glass panel and the back and solid sidesconnecting the front panel and the back, vertical partitions on saidback, said 10 hinged display-front lying wholly within the cabinet whenclosed and said front panel thereof having its lower edge inclinedforward1'y to permit the removal of a package below it, and the saidbottom 'piece of the display-front. I

JOHN M. OALLANDER.

Witnesses:

W. R. LANE, G. G. LANE.

